Centrify Extends Cloud, Active Directory Single Sign-on (SSO) to Apple Macs

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Centrify is taking its unified identity services offering to the Apple (AAPL) Mac world. The company launched Centrify User Suite, Mac Edition this week to provide Active Directory-based authentication, policy management, single sign-on (SSO) and user self-service for connected and remote Mac OS X systems.

Part of the announcement centers around the cloud capabilities being added for remote management and wipe of Mac computers. David McNeely, senior director of product management at Centrify, told Talkin’ Cloud this update of its Mac support essentially solves some of the SSO issues Mac users have had, but from a security standpoint, it also gives IT administrators and trusted advisors the ability to do remote wipes and remote locks via the cloud…

"Most of our current customers would just like to add remote management ability to their Macs," McNeely said. The problem is that a certain segment of users, particularly executives, bring MacBook Pros into the workplace and want to access the network corporate network and data within the four walls of the enterprise, as well as remotely. That presents a security challenge, if only because of the potential for lost or stolen MacBooks. Remote lock and remote wipe take away those concerns, he said…

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